but, so far, has only inspired criticism
Ukrainian-Canadians object that their exhibit is in a back gallery on the way to the washrooms. Armenian-Canadians fear museum visitors will be suffering genocide-overload by the time they encounter the display explaining their people’s slaughter.
Palestinian-Canadians feel completely ignored, and a prominent Jewish organization is miffed that the museum’s Holocaust gallery will not discuss the creation of Israel.
Aboriginal leaders, meanwhile, are angry that the treatment of Canada’s first people is not described as genocide.
The $351-million Canadian Museum for Human Rights is set to open next year in Winnipeg, and so far things have not exactly turned out as imagined when it was announced 10 years ago. Israel Asper, the media mogul who conceived of the museum and whose family foundation contributed $22-million to the project, hoped the building would be a unifying force.
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Canada’s human rights museum was meant as a unifying force, but, so far, has only inspired criticism | National Post
Like bitching about a wedding reception seating plan. The whole ugly building should be sold for scrap.
Ukrainian-Canadians object that their exhibit is in a back gallery on the way to the washrooms. Armenian-Canadians fear museum visitors will be suffering genocide-overload by the time they encounter the display explaining their people’s slaughter.
Palestinian-Canadians feel completely ignored, and a prominent Jewish organization is miffed that the museum’s Holocaust gallery will not discuss the creation of Israel.
Aboriginal leaders, meanwhile, are angry that the treatment of Canada’s first people is not described as genocide.
The $351-million Canadian Museum for Human Rights is set to open next year in Winnipeg, and so far things have not exactly turned out as imagined when it was announced 10 years ago. Israel Asper, the media mogul who conceived of the museum and whose family foundation contributed $22-million to the project, hoped the building would be a unifying force.
more
Canada’s human rights museum was meant as a unifying force, but, so far, has only inspired criticism | National Post
Like bitching about a wedding reception seating plan. The whole ugly building should be sold for scrap.
